South Australia Animal Welfare Act Review 2023
Submission overview
This review of the Animal Welfare Act 1985 (SA) provides an important opportunity to bring South Australia into line with the standards of modern and contemporary animal welfare law. Over the past decade, there have been significant advancements in our scientific understanding of the welfare of animals and their sentience, and community expectations about the treatment of animals has evolved accordingly.
The Alliance for Animals strongly encourages the South Australian Government to review the eleven key recommendations for how the Act could be improved to create a more robust animal welfare framework, with stronger governance and institutional arrangements, consistent decision-making principles, and a formal role for independent expert advice.
For further background to these and other reforms, please see our report, Building a fairer Australia for animals.
Read our submission
In this submission, the Alliance for Animals puts forward eleven key recommendations to improve South Australia’s animal welfare framework.